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NAME
       ezmlm-manage - automatically manage a mailing list

SYNOPSIS
       ezmlm-manage dir

DESCRIPTION
       ezmlm-manage handles administrative requests for the mailing list
       stored in dir.

       ezmlm-manage is normally invoked from a .qmail file.  It reads a mail
       message from its standard input, and a mail envelope from the SENDER,
       LOCAL, and HOST environment variables.

       ezmlm-manage expects LOCAL to be of the form list-action-box=domain.
       Here list is the first line of dir/inlocal, action is a request, and
       box@domain is the target of the request.  ezmlm-manage sends a response
       to the target.  It attaches the original message to the end of its
       response.

       LOCAL may instead be of the form list-action.  Then the envelope sender
       is used as the target.

       ezmlm-manage expects HOST to match the first line of dir/inhost.

       ezmlm-manage copies dir/mailinglist into a Mailing-List field in its
       response.  If the incoming message has a Mailing-List field,
       ezmlm-manage refuses to respond.  ezmlm-manage also refuses to respond
       to bounce messages.

SUBSCRIPTIONS
       If action is sc.cookie, where cookie is an appropriate code (depending
       on the target, the approximate time, and other factors), ezmlm-manage
       adds the target to the mailing list.

       If action is subscribe, ezmlm-manage does not subscribe the target, but
       it identifies the right sc.cookie address in its response.

       This confirmation mechanism (1) verifies that the target is reachable
       and (2) protects the target against forged subscription requests.

       Actions of uc.cookie and unsubscribe are used in the same way to delete
       the target from the mailing list.

       If dir/public does not exist, ezmlm-manage rejects all subscription and
       unsubscription attempts.

ARCHIVE RETRIEVALS
       If action is get.num, ezmlm-manage sends back message num from
       dir/archive.

       If dir/public does not exist, ezmlm-manage rejects all archive
       retrieval attempts.

SEE ALSO
       ezmlm-make(1), ezmlm-return(1), ezmlm-send(1), ezmlm-sub(1), ezmlmunsub(1)
       , ezmlm(5), qmail-command(8)

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